[OSM-legal-talk] Using JOSM + Yahoo Maps Aerial Imagery for Public Domain Release

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Sunburned Surveyor wrote:
> Could you map ways using JOSM and Yahoo aerial photography, export the
> ways for a data set released under the public domain, and then import
> into OSM? Or does the interpretation of the Yahoo Maps terms-of-use
> require the data created with the aerial imagery to be released only
> under the OSM license?

I believe that there is no special OSM agreement with Yahoo. Rather, 
Yahoo have carefully evaluated their existing terms of use and said to 
us that what we want to do is ok according to these terms.

Since I do not believe that these terms contain any provision about the 
type of license you want to use derived data under, I guess it should be 
possible to create any data that way.

Then again, we wouldn't want Yahoo to get all scared and say "if that is 
the case then we'd rather re-read our terms again..."

Bye
Frederik

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